 Okay, so this one has been recommended to me a lot and it's been requested a lot and Well, it's it's pretty good. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long you know, I don't have a whole lot to say about the enemy unfortunately because You know, it's just generally yeah, it's a good book like it has a couple of things that I didn't like about it and Plenty of stuff that was decent, but overall, it's just like yeah That was good. You know, I don't have a whole lot to add about it So this is another one of those entries in that weird genre of young adult books where some sort of disease Comes through and kills off all the adults or turns all the adults into some sort of weird zombie knockoff And in this case, it's the second one all the adults turn into I Mean they call them grown-ups or strangers in the books And I think strangers sounds better, but even then it's not a great name But you know, they're basically just diseased humans who try to eat your flesh But you don't need to get them in the heads. They can die normally and Well, it's in London kids are running around and there's a group of them that are hiding out in an old Department store and then this one kid comes there who says he's from Buckingham Palace and he says like hey We have gardens over there. We have medical facilities and we need more people So you can just come move over to Buckingham Palace and things will be great for you And so they decide okay, you know what this area sucks So they pack up and go over there and the first half of the book is just them traveling across London and trying to avoid All the trouble that they run into and the second half is them being at Buckingham Palace and realizing like okay There's still some shit. We got to deal with now plot-wise. I don't think this book is very good I will say that and I know it's part of a series like I think there's six or seven in this series in total I don't think I'm going to read the rest because as much as I enjoyed this one It just didn't pull me in in terms of like oh, what's gonna happen next Because yeah, I kind of just described the whole plot there. It was kids go across the city to this one area and a couple of interesting things happen But they don't really connect together for the most part and then once they get to Buckingham Palace I'm not gonna go into spoilers right yet, but Things just aren't great and it was very predictable what was going to happen. So Yeah, I don't have a whole lot to say on that, but just the plot wasn't Very interesting to me. Also, I should probably come out and say that I did try to read this book many years ago I think I was like 14 or 15 and I don't know what it was I just couldn't get into it and like I said, I liked it now But I just wasn't able to get into it when I was younger I read like a quarter of it and then I just stopped However, all that said There are still parts of this that I really liked I really liked the grown-ups slash strangers weirdly enough because I know that they are just great value Brand zombies like I get that they're they're just zombies by a different name and they altered a couple of things about them But the way that it's set up they make a little bit more sense than most of the other entries in this weird adult apocalypse genre, whatever you want to call it or hell even you can even go outside of Adult all the adults die and there's other series like why the last man which I read not long ago Where just a certain subset of the population dies like in why the last man was all the men die so that there's a weird genre in there, but anyways, um in the enemy the grown-ups are Genuinely pretty intimidating because they aren't as stupid as zombies and they aren't as slow as zombies Like near the beginning one of the kids mentions that some of them are smart some of them are strong and some of them are fast But none of them are all three. So if you're careful and prepared you can still Figure out a way to deal with them, which is you know interesting But it it does make them intimidating because you know, you have trouble outrunning them a lot of the time out fighting them is Often the best course of action, but even then it's no guarantee of success because you know, they're in London they don't have firearms and Occasionally they are clever enough to set traps and stuff. So I did really like that but at the same time you don't have to get them in the head which makes them a little easier to take out and You know at the end of the day they do eat children. So that makes them Well, just a little bit scarier than most other zombie knockoffs But the main thing that really Brought this book into being good to me at least was the character cast because I mean How do I put this there's a few too many? I think I think that some of them could have been left out or combined with other characters But that said they're all good You know that even the characters that at the beginning I thought were kind of annoying or kind of whiny like a column for instance as the story goes on you start to understand them a lot more and by the end of the story Callum in particular is the one that got me because By the end I did feel sorry for him and I understood why he did the things he did even if I didn't agree with him And that goes for all the other characters too like Aaron for example or Mave like and moxie like they all Uh Actually put this like they all just have multiple Aspects to their personality and I always understood them. You know, I I felt like most of them had a back story You know, they didn't just pop into existence one day like they had a life before all this shit went down which sort of Led into the person that they are now and they have you know, their own different unique reactions to The world being destroyed like some people Are able to sort of thrive in it To an extent some people just really hate it and want things to go back to the way they are Some people are much more accepting of things as they are now But they still hate it and they want to try and improve upon it like there's just You know just a lot of little aspects to their personalities Which sets them apart from one another like I pretty much never got them confused and just makes them Well, it just makes them good characters. Yeah, like there's not a whole lot else. I can say about that What I will say though is that my favorite character was Sam because He's a little kid I think he's only about nine years old and he gets kidnapped by the grown-ups near the beginning And at first everyone thinks he's dead, but he manages to escape from their nest And he's on his own for most of the rest of the book and he goes through some crazy crazy shit But even though he's a little little kid because That tends to be lost on people sometimes like these are kids that are going through this Which I think adds to the horror aspect for me at least But even though he's a little little kid He still has this iron determination to survive and to get back to his sister and to get back to his friends and Honestly, like just watching him Maybe not grow necessarily but just watching him Uh do his best to to live and to refuse to let himself die like that's just I I really liked it One last thing I want to mention is that The action scenes in this are pretty good and oh actually, I guess there's two last things I want to mention, but whatever the action scenes are pretty good, you know Nothing nothing really to add there. Just yeah, they're good. And uh, also I got this audiobook because You know, I'm quarantined right now and I don't know exactly when this will go up, but It's easier to just buy stuff on audible at this point and listen to it Then it is to try and go out to the library or anything because library and everything is closed. But anyways, um, I The narrator for this one is English and he does a really good job of Getting a bunch of different accents and different voices for the different characters, which probably helped me keep them straight in my head But um, honestly, I'm just glad that it didn't That they went with an English narrator because an american one would not have been able to get all the nuances there But that's everything, you know the enemy It's it's pretty good. You know, I don't have a whole lot else to say like if the idea of Like a young adult novel about kids in the apocalypse where all the adults are gone and they have to rely on themselves Appeals to you Um, I don't know if this would be the first one I would recommend because you know, like I said, there's a surprising amount of these There's also like the young world and quarantine and stuff And but you know, this one's a little bit more lighthearted than those other two with you know, less violence and less rape and stuff So I don't know if you're looking for that same idea, but a little bit less extreme then I guess the enemy would be for you or if you're just looking for more of the same then Hell you might enjoy it, but overall just yeah enjoyable book not award worthy or anything, but I liked it and Thanks for watching if you got this far. That's not a particularly long review But you know, I I appreciate it. 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